This blog is all about my first book.

December 30, 2006

If you planted an acorn in the ground today, how big would your oak tree be tomorrow? If you went out and didn't see the oak tree, would you dig up the acorn and take a look at it to see if it had done anything? And if the acorn hadn't changed, would you assume that the acorn must be broken, throw it away, grab another one and plant it?

Would you then go out the next day and see how big your oak tree was? And if nothing had happened, would you again dig up the acorn, see that nothing had happened, assume that it was broken, throw it away and plant yet another acorn?

December 23, 2006

I felt uncomfortable as I sat in the lawyer's waiting room. I didn't like the idea of being there but I didn't know what else to do. The company I had worked for had gone bankrupt and my health insurance had gotten cancelled right before our second son was born. He had been born at 27 weeks, three months premature, and the doctor had warned us that the hospital bills would be over $300,000.

So there I was, unhappily sitting in the waiting room of a lawyer who specialized in bankruptcies. I was hoping he would help me force the insurance company to pay the hospital bill, a bill I had no hope of paying any other way...or so I thought.

In the Old Testament we read the story about the spies that went into the Promised Land. The spies were amazed at the abundance they saw in the land. It says that they cut down a single cluster of grapes that was so large it had to be carried on a pole between two of them. They returned to the children of Israel in the wilderness and said, "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit." (Num. 13:27)

The land that God wanted to give them was so beautiful and bountiful that it was beyond anything they had imagined.

December 09, 2006

For some time now I've been struggling with my weight, and no, it's not because I'm under-weight.

Every now and then it will begin to really bother me so I'll decide that it's time to get in shape. I'll set aside an hour and work real hard and get good and sweaty. Then force myself to cut down on all that bad stuff I'm not supposed to be eating. All of this hard work and discipline usually lasts for a couple of days, maybe even a few weeks if I'm really good about it.